- Smokers ‘four times less likely’ to contract Covid-19, prompting nicotine patch trials on patients
- Flu and coronavirus will launch dual ‘assault’ on America next winter if we don’t prepare now, CDC chief warns
- Dr. Anthony Fauci: ‘We will have coronavirus in the fall’
- Merkel says we are still at the start of the coronavirus pandemic
- Bug circulated in US weeks earlier than thought, mistaken for flu, health official says
- Data on Gilead’s remdesivir, released by accident, show no benefit for coronavirus patients
- Retailer sees 25% surge in sales of pregnancy tests during lockdown
- Decline in deodorant, razor sales shows lockdown is lowering people’s grooming standards
- China has put a city of 10 million people on lockdown over fears there will be another wave of coronavirus cases.
- Europe: Italy reports highest ever number of daily recoveries (3033) and for the first time the number of daily recoveries is higher than the number of new cases (2646). Also, highest ever number of tests performed in one day (66,658)
- New Zealand after 4 weeks lockdown has only 2.86 deaths per million and 2/3 of cases have recovered.
- USA: In New York’s largest hospital system, 88 percent of coronavirus patients on ventilators didn’t make it
- USA: New York reports 438 deaths, lowest since March 30th
- USA: New York antibody study estimates 13.9% of residents have had the coronavirus, Cuomo says – 2.7 million possibly infected with coronavirus statewide
- USA: jobless claims reach 26 million since coronavirus hit, wiping out all gains since 2008 recession
- USA: Coronavirus cases are likely 10 to 20 times higher in US than reported, former FDA chief Gottlieb says